The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A roundtable discussion tackles the question about how to make those first steps toward more involvement with planning in the local community.

September 3 - Greater Greater Washington

Extreme heat, rising seas, and other impacts of climate change are turning deadly faster than predicted, California officials warn.

September 3 - Los Angeles Times

Can Trulia succeed in making sense of neighborhoods for an online platform?

September 3 - Slate

Plans for the Brooklyn-Queens Connector, otherwise known as the BQX, are still on the table, despite reports of the project's demise.

September 3 - Crain's New York Business

A recent report by the DePaul University Institute for Housing Studies finds the number of two-flats, three-flats, and four-flats in quick decline among the residential building stock of Chicago.

September 3 - Chicago Tribune

Mayor John Tory announced a 2018 expansion of bike share that will include 3,750 new bikes and 360 new stations.

September 2 - Daily Hive

Thinking beyond the MetroCard.

September 2 - Smart Cities Dive

Revitalization plans for the Alamo Plaza are moving forward, controversially, in San Antonio. The hope is to have investments complete by the 300th anniversary of the Alamo in 2024.

September 2 - San Antonio Express-News

City officials have a new ambition for a corner of St. Louis once considered for an NFL stadium and an MLS stadium. Now the future site of an NHL practice facility, the surrounding area could become an entertainment district.

September 2 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A change of nomenclature shifts focus to the self-determination of residents relocating from the coast of Louisiana as rising seas inundate their homes.

September 2 - Common Edge

Transportation investment is struggling to keep pace with population growth.

September 1 - The Columbus Dispatch

In California, agencies are working to redefine enforcement and safety procedures as the number of homeless individuals who seek refuge in vulnerable open or wild landscapes continue to increase.

September 1 - The Planning Report

A controversial bill that would free BART to develop housing on the most transit oriented of development sites, its parking lots, has managed to clear the hurdles of the California Legislature.

September 1 - Curbed SF

With $2.5 billion in new transit funding generated by a half-cent sales tax, Atlanta has choices about the future of its public transit systems. One advocate says investments should target economic mobility for low-income communities.

September 1 - SaportaReport

The Low- or No-Emission (Low-No) Grant program has awarded funding to encourage the "deployment of transit buses and infrastructure that use advanced propulsion technologies."

September 1 - Smart Cities Dive

RFK Stadium, former home to professional football, soccer, and baseball teams, is done. A massive redevelopment has begun, starting with new sports fields for kids.

August 31 - WTOP

The saga of the voter-approved Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation millage appears to have reached a conclusion that will allow bus service to continue in Macomb County, Michigan.

August 31 - The Detroit Free Press

A political decision by the Texas Transportation Commission last December to drop projects which included toll lanes was thought to doom 15 road expansions from their 10-year capital plan, but some will go forward with HOV as opposed to HOT lanes.

August 31 - Austin American-Statesman

Follow up question: Are you sure you want to know the answer to the first question?

August 31 - Educated Driver

Some people think of Houston as an oil town; other people think of it as a transit town. This podcast is for the second kind of person.

August 31 - Houston Chronicle